Pie-lifter



(No Model.)

' I. J. PETTIT.

PIE LIFTER.

No. 420,546. Patented Feb. 4, 1890.-

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

' ISRAEL J/PETTIT, OF AMERIOUS, KANSAS.

. PIE-LIFTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 420,546, dated February 4, 1890.

Application filed January 31, 1889- Serial No. 298,162. (No model.)

This invention relates to pie-lifters; and it consists in the novel construction and combination of the parts, as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

I11 the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of the pie-lifter from above, and Fig. 2 is an end viewof the same.

A A are two tapering sticks of hard wood or other similar material which is a non-coir.

ductor of heat.

B is a pivot of round iron or other metal, having its stem fitting in circular holes 01": the same diameter as the stem, and provided with heads above and below the sticks and connecting the two sticks together at about onethird of their whole length from their larger ends, which form handles for operating the device.

0 is a wire loop secured to one of the larger ends of the sticks for inserting the fingers, and D is awire loop secured to the otherstick for inserting the thumb of the operators hand.

E E are oppositely-arranged wire loops pro- 'jecting from the smaller ends of the sticks.

Each loop E has a straight portion e in the middle, and the loops are bent downwardly, so that the said straight middle portions work opposite to each other, but in a lower plane than the sticks.

. The device is used in a similar manner to a pair of scissors and the pics are lifted by the loops E, which are closed over the pie so that the straight portions 6 come underneath the bottom of it.

What I claim is- 1. In a pie-lifter, the combination, with the two crossed and pivoted sticks of solid nonheat-conducting materiahof the wire loop for the fingers and the wire loop for the thumb secured tothe sticks upon one side of the pivot, and the oppositely-arranged wire loops secured to the other ends of the sticks on the opposite side of the pivot, substantially as set forth.

2. In a pie-lifter, the combination, with the two pivoted sticks, of the pivot fitting the pivot-holes in both sticks and provided with heads above and below them, the fingers loop and the thumb-loop secured to the sticks on one side of the pivot, and the two oppositelyarranged loops secured to the sticks on the other side of the pivot and provided with the straight middle portions working in a plane below the sticks, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ISRAEL J. PETTIT. WVitnesses:

JOHN L. BUTLER, M. E. BUTLER. 

